carls

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by carls 1y ago
I've seen this being posted all over, but people rarely seem to realize that data here is from 2023.
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by carls 2y ago
I think it's reasonable to be turned off by a slick-looking website, but I imagine it's because the intended audience of the website is the general (dog-owning) public, likely for the purposes of soliciting participants. Interesti
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by carls 2y ago
This project is a research project out of the University of Washington, led by several of the professors there. I believe the lab is the Healthy Aging and Longevity Institute. They share a list of academic publications that have resulted fr
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by carls 2y ago
There are probably several, but one of the ones that made the rounds a while ago is "The Man Who Killed Google Search" by Edward Zitron: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
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by carls 2y ago
I skimmed the technical report: https://cosine.sh/blog/genie-technical-report At the bottom, they noted the following: > SWE-Bench has recently modified their submission requirements, now asking for the full working
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by carls 3y ago
It seems to me that there's a natural tension in emerging fields of science and engineering between establishing clear guidelines and regulations early on to minimize harms, or instead allowing practitioners to experiment, tinker, buil
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by carls 4y ago
I took a class with Professor Ousterhout. He would end every Friday's lecture with a "Thought for the Weekend", such as this one. It was very entertaining and charming to hear him discuss his personal and professional life, a
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by carls 4y ago
The article does in fact mention this event in the below paragraph: " The hypothesis took another hit last July when a bombshell article in Science revealed that data in the influential 2006 Nature paper linking amyloid plaques to cogn
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by carls 4y ago
I think the situation is more complex than just "we must assume they don't care about learning ... just fail the bastards." I think it's more important to first understand what were the social, environmental, cultural (a
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by carls 4y ago
I recently took a CS class at Stanford with an interesting policy on cheating. While cheating almost certainly happened during the course, at the end of the quarter the course staff made a public post allowing any student who cheated to mak
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by carls 5y ago
I think a fundamental mistake you (and other commenters on this article) are making is judging the value of the "plain" English version by whether you think it's good writing. However, the article's intention is to use p
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by carls 5y ago
I think the $100bn number does not refer to the company revenue. According to the company, in 2016 revenue was close to $2bn [1]. It may instead refer to total assets under administration (which was $74bn in 2016, according to the same sour
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by carls 6y ago
Although the author may be wrong about whether the 10-Ks he saw were the same ones being submitted to the government, I think his curiosity is still worth indulging. Why did Netflix slowly stop designing their 10-K reports that lived on the
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by carls 6y ago
I'm not sure this is a sufficient explanation. McCarthy left in 2010. But it looks like the decline in the "designy"-ness began in 2006.
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by carls 6y ago
It seems like the blog is referencing the documents posted directly on Netflix's website[1], the early versions of which do open up with well-designed cover pages. In contrast, the link you shared is perhaps the direct filings that the
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by carls 6y ago
This probably depends more on what the topics are, and how they're talked about.
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by carls 6y ago
I've done the Coursera course, Nand2Tetris, that inspired this website [1] and found it deeply intellectually satisfying and engaging. If anyone is interested in learning about the logical primitives that build up to a computer, and ho
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by carls 6y ago
I teach an AP CS A class at a Bay Area school. In previous years, the class would have students write and run Java on their own computers. This year, given the remote nature, the class has completely transitioned to using Repl.it. We publis
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by carls 6y ago
This is the way that I wish more teachers taught. I love finding analogies or visual diagrams for CS concepts to share with my students. Request: can others share links to books, courses, videos, articles or other resources that employ incr
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by carls 6y ago
My question in the original comment is not meant to mock or poke fun at those who enjoyed it. I, myself, found it somewhat entertaining to read as a kid. Rather, my question is more in reference to what seem to be incongruous facts: the art
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by carls 6y ago
I didn't know how much of Jim Davis' motivations were commercial ones. It seems very at odds with folks like Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson: > For years, Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandi
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by carls 6y ago
I spoke on a panel with Rick Sung, the Undersheriff who allegedly withheld permits until Apple coughed up the iPads. At the end of the event, each panelist was offered a Starbucks gift card by the event organizers. Rick gave his Starbucks g
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by carls 6y ago
I definitely think it's a good point to support Python/R for data manipulation, and allow to also JavaScript for complex visualizations. Their current target for paid customers seems to be infoviz folks at news outlets (the CTO an
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by carls 6y ago
It looks like their current plan for monetization is a per user subscription fee for added features on the notebook: https://observablehq.com/teams Given the marketing on the page, it also looks like it's targeted at b
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by carls 6y ago
I've used Vega-Lite and d3 before and have appreciated both. Vega-Lite seems to be great for rapid prototyping and d3 for really refined, intricate and more complex plots. I checked out the Falcon documentation on Github and currently
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by carls 6y ago
Can you share how you were able to embed the notebook into your blog post?
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by carls 6y ago
It's a bit buried, but if you click through the link about how today is a big day for Observable, you'll notice it links to an article announcing that they raised their Series A today: $10.5M from Sequoia and Acrew.
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by carls 6y ago
A lot of the code you can write does look like JS, though. You can use the libraries that may be common to a JS dev. It's not perfect, but there's enough overlap and the differences are understandable and documented[1]. Also havin
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by carls 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Observable, having used it to prototype and learn a number of different visualizations. Note that you don't just have to use D3, but can use other visualization libraries as well (i.e. Vega-Lite, Highcharts). I al
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by carls 6y ago
Shriram did an excellent job being a lively, energetic and engaging speaker who distilled some of the core concepts of the paper down without getting tangled in the formalisms. I do not have an academic background in theoretical computer sc

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